interconnected via software rings.
On initialization an L-thread scheduler is started on every EAL thread. On all
-but the master EAL thread only a a dummy L-thread is initially started.
+but the master EAL thread only a dummy L-thread is initially started.
The L-thread started on the master EAL thread then spawns other L-threads on
different L-thread schedulers according the command line parameters.
The function ``pthread_exit()`` has additional special handling. The standard
system header file pthread.h declares ``pthread_exit()`` with
-``__attribute__((noreturn))`` this is an optimization that is possible because
+``__rte_noreturn`` this is an optimization that is possible because
the pthread is terminating and this enables the compiler to omit the normal
handling of stack and protection of registers since the function is not
expected to return, and in fact the thread is being destroyed. These